bielingg wrote:
I find it sad the way some members of this board are picking on PONTOS.
Since PONTOS arrived on the scene it has been a constant drip drip of negative outbursts with very little merit. I do not remember this kind of bile when there was only one or two companies on the market, producing product , product light years inferior to what Korea is producing for us today.
It must be very difficult for PONTOS to stay cool and reply in a very polite way to some of the accusation flying . I know their livelihood depends on it, that's why it is up to us to stop this barrage .
All you have to do is to read the pages and pages of their Bismarck set to get the idea here . This hurts the hobby and us all , I am really to old to still tinker with PE but I remember life before .
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I'll be accused of bias no doubt, but I think people need a reality check.
The product is priced at a level a little above the competition, and the product is quite a bit more comprehensive. Nobody forces anyone to buy it. It's a lot of work. The amount of brass colour in the photographs gives a good hint at that.
To expect not to have to use any skills is a bit naive in my honest opinion. If a modeller thinks the quality is not up to standard then don't buy another and see how you prefer the competition or see how you get on scratchbuilding.
When parts are missing or damaged, Pontos replace. Where parts simply don't fit, Pontos make correction parts.
On this forum I've seen a lot of people giving Kim a hard time for not spending all his time answering a lot of useless questions (which first he has to translate - and Korean is not a particularly compatible language with English as far as syntax and sentence structure goes) and usually just to ask "when will you release <whatever I fancy building next>?"
I've seen someone upset because they'd have to transpose positioning information given on the instructions to the model manually. I've seen someone insisting that an assembly was IMPOSSIBLE to build despite it being assembled right there on the photographic instructions.
He's running a business and like many small companies there isn't a staff sitting waiting to answer stupid questions and surf foreign language forums looking for mentions to react to. And to say what? "Yes, that was a typo. Well spotted"?
Anyone who remembers the early GMM or WEM days with black sketches suggesting a part was attached 'roughly there' doesn't complain too much about Pontos instructions.
So, again, reality check.